Assessing the surgical outcome of the “chopsticks” technique in endoscopic transsphenoidal adenoma surgery
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Endonasal endoscopic transsphenoidal pituitary surgery for pituitary adenoma: a retrospective analysis of surgical outcome.
The purpose of this retrospective joint rhino-neurosurgical study from January 1998 until September 2009 is to document the demographic data, clinical presentations, radiological findings, approaches and incidence of residual tumour. Forty-seven patients with pituitary adenoma underwent trans-sphenoidal hypophysectomy of which 25 patients with complete medical and radiological data were include...
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Endoscopic surgery has been performed in our Department since 1996 as assistance in micro-neurosurgical procedures. In the same way the endoscope was used in transsphenoidal pituitary surgery, but from the beginning of 2004 we started with "pure" endoscopic surgery. We present our experience with the first ninety patients to demonstrate our way of operating. Endoscopic pituitary surgery is perf...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neurosurgical Focus
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1092-0684
DOI: 10.3171/2020.3.focus2065